The failure of the Gulf bet to crack the home front

Yemen’s home front last week saw political and security tension nearly toppling the Sanaa-based coalition between the main components of the “rescue” government, namely Ansarullah and the General People’s Congress. The internal and external parties have been betting on the creation of cracks in the home front, counting on breaking the political deadlock and the blocking of the horizon of military option. The UAE has played a prominent role in fueling the recent tension in Sanaa.

The UAE minister of state for foreign affairs said in an interview with the newspaper «Leaf», the middle of this month, that the goal of the UAE is to push former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, away from «support Houthis», and encourage divisions within his party («General People’s Congress») He also stressed the importance of distinguishing between the Houthis as a strategic threat and Saleh, which is essentially a subversive element and does not represent a strategic threat.

Since the beginning of the aggression on Yemen, the internal front has remained a prime target of the forces of the Alliance, which has worked hard to penetrate this front by means of various means. Saudi Arabia has worked to create the conference, but it has not been able to cause a horizontal split in the organizational or social and tribal segments that support it. Has been able to penetrate vertically split a significant number of senior leaders, deputies and former ministers and fled to Riyadh.

There were also cases of fluctuation in the ranks of other senior and middle leaders in the party, and registered official organs of Yemen, and those calculated on «Ansar Allah», many cases of volatility and duplication in the ranks of the leaderships that are still in Sanaa and distributes loyalty between Saleh, and the link with Saudi Arabia , A category that accuses Saleh of securing political and organizational cover, and this group is likely to weaken the internal front for its involvement in the so-called fifth column. But the Saudi breach of the leaders of the conference did not cause structural imbalance in the organizational structure and leadership of the party.
On the other hand, the UAE has been working hard on the rhythm between the «Conference» and «Ansar Allah», and these attempts have been futile for the loss of real momentum and limited to the media, and the insiders are the failure of the UAE attempts to Saudi Arabia’s sharp position of the former president and refused to open channels Directly with him, or agree to restore what has been interrupted and restore the warmth of relations between the two sides.

In the past two months, the United Arab Emirates has succeeded in winning a wedge between Ansar Allah and the Congress. It has used a real momentum, which is leaked by the initiative of General Ahmed’s son, in exchange for excluding the movement from the political scene in Sana’a. The initiative, if obtained, would have brought Saudi Arabia down from the tree and exited from the Yemeni sands under the pretext of achieving the objectives for which the aggression was launched, by a political settlement that would re-produce a new authority on its size. The resigning president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and Ali Abdullah Saleh, on the scene, replacing the son of the latter, Major General Ahmed.

Many of the conference participants expressed their interest in leading the political process in Yemen. They focused on the internal level and shifted from clarity in the approach of aggression against the country to the ambiguity and division of responsibilities between the interior and abroad. The positions showed that they were caught in duplications. The conference officials did not improve the ambiguity and reassure their partner with the solemn announcement of rejecting any proposal coming from outside the joint delegation authorized by the parties to conduct negotiations within the political process.

In this charged atmosphere, the UAE’s media incitement and high political levels continued to be a concentrated campaign of the two sides. The campaign was led by the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, who is described as the official spokesman for the ruling regime in Abu Dhabi, who poured oil on the fire in tweets on Twitter, including saying: «Reports from Sanaa predict a serious explosion in the relationship between Saleh and the Houthis», God »obstacle to the political solution and humanitarian initiatives, and that subjecting them« Conference »is a continuation of the crisis.

The morning incident in Sana’a, in which one of the conference officials and three members of the Popular Committees loyal to Ansar Allah were killed, brought the rift closer, and the security situation almost disappeared, followed by the collapse of the coalition and falling into the trap of the Gulf bets. But Yemen’s conventional wisdom has missed the opportunity for domestic and foreign observers to realize the danger of continued cracking on the home front.

The two parties met on Monday evening in the Supreme Political Council and agreed to end the tensions that resulted from the events and the ensuing events. They also held open meetings between the leadership of the components to develop solutions, media and political proposals, and unite all efforts to confront the aggression and unite the internal front. .

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